"The Slow Erosion of NIH"

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"The Slow Erosion of NIH"

Journal of Commerce (12/22/89), P. 8A
Greenberg, Daniel S.

Abstract: The National Institutes of Health (NIH), while still a great institution, is eroding through financial neglect and political battles, writes Daniel S. Greenberg, editor and publisher of Science + Government Report. NIH is still eminent in many fields of research, including AIDS, but a low salary and the odious "litmus test" on the abortion issue that right-wing administration officials have imposed on candidates for the job have kept the director's position open since last August. Several leading candidates have angrily removed themselves from consideration because they refuse to flatly oppose abortion. A more important problem is the budgetary plight of the $7.5 billion-a-year enterprise. The lack of money has restricted NIH to funding only 29 percent of proposals it has rated as highly worthy. The financial squeeze has made the difference between winning and losing proposals more a matter of luck than merit, and has encouraged young students to choose other fields, Greenberg writes.

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